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Originally Posted by 12thMan
This was going to largely be a US led intervention regardless of what country struck Libyan targets first. This is the unfortunate price of being the most powerful nation in the world.
It was a little sad to see John McCain and Lindsey Graham criticizing the goverenment and the president for not acting sooner, as if the situation would be that much better without any international support.
CRed, I think each cruise cost about a mil per, so yeah do the math. It's crazy how we cry about the deficit incessantly, yet place a fleet of war ships off the coast of Tripoli and bomb away.
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I heard that you could get them for about 900K on e-bay. Craigslist might have a better deal though.
Seriously, I scoff at those prices after the R&D has been performed the cost of manufacturing is not that high. I sometimes feel that people arbitrarily throw those cost numbers around to support their agenda; just like the article that estimated the cost of the Super Bowl flyover. In reality it's money already spent.